Don't forget that you live in Warrnambool.I'm eyeing off a disability pension as we speak. Going with mental anguish due to my high stress job.
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AusGAF 9 - F*** Off, We're Full (Of People With Different Ethnic Backgrounds)
- Thread starter Kritz
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You're definitely right about the last sentence, so don't take this as me trying to change your mind or anything, but in the first part there's definitely a misunderstanding. I don't blame you for it either because I didn't understand it until I experienced it. The other side of the "struggle" you mention was never really sufficiently explained to me, so I'll try to now.
Kids are a socially acceptable drug. I'm completely serious.
The emotions they make you feel are things you've never felt before and never imagined you'd experience. Just like your first time being drunk or whatever. I think out of all the things I'd read about parenting, this was the one thing that no one seems to spend much time on, and gets lost amongst all the tips for dealing with excrement and no sleep. We've evolved to protect and love our kids and they trigger, somewhere in the complexity of all our meat and electricity, some crazy new emotions. It's amazing. Do you think these legions of parents are all really "struggling" all the time? No! Why? They're high!
Along with the highs, come similar lows to drug addiction. Most of your free time goes towards maintaining them. You become much more unreliable at work and your career progression slows. Your relationships with other people suffer. You lower your standards for your own appearance (from "Have I worn this?" to "Does this have slobber on it?" to "Which one of these has the least slobber on it?"). You become tired and irritable a lot. You get all sorts of unsolicited advice from people with no experience in managing them/it, including occasional public shaming.
There are two key differences between kids and drugs though:
1) With kids, the highs keep getting better, while the lows fade away. The opposite tends to be true for drugs.
2) Kids are socially acceptable.
It's perfectly acceptable to turn up to work tired and not completely with it because your kids kept you up all night. Imagine turning up to a meeting a few minutes late and saying "Sorry guys, shouldn't have had that fifth bong last night." Yet, if you say "sorry guys, junior is teething and was up all night" it's all backslaps and "I remember that! Wait until they're <whatever age your kid is at +2>, then it's worse!"
All in all it's been a pretty amazing life experience for me, and it's only just started. I don't deny that there are people that decide not to have kids for good reasons. Perhaps at least some of those people don't have the right impression of parenting to begin with, so I'm just posting on the off chance...
TLDR: Kids get you high like a drug and I'm not even kidding.
Planet_JASE
Member
I'm calling child services, Fred.
Stop huffing children.
Pretty sure they go after the few that aren't high enough.
Planet_JASE
Member
After what you've said, it sounds like they might just like taking children in order to get high off of them.
Also, different kids probably give you different buzzes.
Also, different kids probably give you different buzzes.
Planet_JASE
Member
Why go to a dealer when you grow your own, huh?
bodyboarder
Member
I have some advice for male ausgaf. If you are ever asked to be a mates best man run for the hills.
You have all been warned.
You have all been warned.
I dunno, I felt pretty damn honoured to be asked! I also had heaps of help from the other groomsmen so it was all good. It is pretty nerve-wracking though.
Is that because you need privacy?
Planet_JASE
Member
No ball.
Depends if he is into a bit of spot fixing.
Planet_JASE
Member
You have to keep an eye open for ball tampering, too.
bodyboarder
Member
Agreed it was nice to be asked. Just organising the bucks is an absolute pain.
roosters93
Member
Dead Man post more. I seen you, seen you posting in other threads. Cheating on us!
I forgive you Danoss.
Stay classy retailers.
Damnnn
What's her degree?
I forgive you Danoss.
Stay classy retailers.
Details! What was he doing?
Also, thanks MWave, I was about to spend $1900 on a motherboard. Luckily you suggested otherwise.
Also she just got her final mark, and graduates with a perfect GPA, 24 x High Distinctions, so proud
Damnnn
What's her degree?
I've been trying to cut down on my GAF posting, and trying to not spend so much time in AusGAF, I wanted to get out of the top ten posters. But everyone seems to have more of a life than me. :/
Don't worry, I spend a ton of time on AusGAF. I just never post because I have nothing to say :/
So, um, does anyone think that handing 50% of the voting power for who should be Prime Minister to non-elected members of a political party (i.e. the most annoying people. Seriously, any time you meet someone actually keen enough to join one of the major parties, they are pretty annoying) to be really stupid?
Yep.
Come here and say that.
I think each party should elect it's leader in the way they choose. As long as they don't change it between the start of a campaign and the end, people can factor that into their choice. I think there is merit in all members of a party having a say in the leader, it is like the country as a whole, it's not up to the elected reps to decide who the winner of the election is.
Yeah, that doesn't seem to stop me, LOL.
I used to post a lot on weekends, but over the past year or so I've been doing more and more stuff with friends and family. If I actually am home then I'll play actually play games instead of talking about them =P
Umm... that's what I was getting at.
Yeah, being single with most of my friends being interstate has really destroyed my social life.
That ship has sailed. The ALP just changed their leader and got 15% of the vote back.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
There's a certain amount of truth to the notion that the leader sets the tone for their team and has considerable clout in terms of setting the policy agenda. It's not like the leader of the party doesn't matter.
See also: Tony Abbott.
reptilescorpio
Member
Yeah but people think Warrnambool is nice and cruisy and by the beach. On the surface it's a nice place. Once you stick around and actually sit down and breath in the crackwhores it starts to stink of fraud, child abuse and publicly flaunted drug addictions.
Fuck yes it is.
The wife gets a migrane? Whelp I gotta stay home and make sure the boy doesn't huff paint.
Wife has to go to a funeral? Whelp I gotta stay home and make sure the boy doesn't put the cat up his butt.
No sleep for a week? Sleep at the desk during work!
House covered in diarrhea? Sleep at home during work!
So fucking happy. HD fucking Cricket. FINALLY.
If you include alcohol in the bucks you make the event at least 70% likely to be a hit.
Life on GAF means zero productivity.
No more stupid than the current method, probably less so.
reptilescorpio
Member
I DONT KNOW THEY ARE ALL THE FUCKING SAME TO ME
Also don't forget this 10% off coupon!
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Planet_JASE
Member
Hey rep, I just wanted to say thank you for posting all the free iOS stuff. Much appreciated, dude.
I just wanna get the one that has good multiplayer so I can play with you guys
What stuff?
Planet_JASE
Member
Find it for yourself, you lazy fucker.
Infinity Blade 2, Where's My Water, Tiny Wings, and Sword and Sworcery.
Infinity Blade 2, Where's My Water, Tiny Wings, and Sword and Sworcery.
Oh so because Polands gone we should give them all of Europe? Nein!
Planet_JASE
Member
You lasted, what, a week, without using a Hitler reference?
I guess we should be happy for that much respite, but... eh, in life you always hope for more than what you get.
I guess we should be happy for that much respite, but... eh, in life you always hope for more than what you get.
Thanks for the explanation, it's good to get the other (experienced) side of the story. There are a number of reasons for us not to have kids, and I won't bore you with the details there (well more so not something I feel entirely comfortable talking about here). But the main reason for both of us can be summed up plain and simple with selfishness. We are both career minded people and neither of us want to give that up, we both are passionate in what we do and would prefer for things not to complicate that. Now I am not under the illusion that you cannot have a career and kids as well, I know people that make that work. However, as much as we like our work, we like even more our free time. Both of us have a number of hobbies we put a bit of time into and we often complain that we don't have enough free time to pursue them as it is. I am sure we both could make really good parents should it be our desire but it just happens to be something neither of us are interested in. I do often raise it with her, not because I want to have kids myself but I just want to provide her every opportunity to have them should we wish, far be it from me to deny her of that, and she is the same, and has said a number of times, if I wanted to have kids we could seriously talk and consider it. I know we're far from unique in this line of thought but we just don't hold the same view on it as many of our friends and family. Both of our mothers have grandchildren so that base is covered
Who knows, maybe one day we will regret it, or the world will go the same way as The Last of Us and we will be glad we didn't
There were other Hitlers
He's been busy expanding his empire: http://www.thebraiser.com/kfc-threatens-lawsuit-hitler-fried-chicken/
Steam summer sale related? http://steamdb.info/blog/20/
Jables Swan
Member
Come on Thursday. Come faster please. Need me some Pacific Rimming.
They should have called it Ring of Fire and then they could have used some Johnny Cash in the trailers.
Maybe some folsom prison blues.
reptilescorpio
Member
L4D2? L4D2.
No probs, Where's My Water is fucking awesome! Makes it easier to get the lad out of the shower too, I just quickly turn the taps off when he is looking the other way and say the crocodile water has run out!
No probs, Where's My Water is fucking awesome! Makes it easier to get the lad out of the shower too, I just quickly turn the taps off when he is looking the other way and say the crocodile water has run out!
Box of Bunnies
Banned
What would Eddie Hitler want with all of Europe?